Re: Disassembling an FST...

[mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <david.905924849@wraith>, David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>
>>cDavid Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>>Who says ProDOS-8 needs to support this hypothetical new file system?
>>Doing so would be next to impossible unless it was specific to the IIgs,
>>and made use of native code to implement the file system (via hacks
>>through the global page, for example).
>
>Well, if P8 apps running on a //gs cannot read this new filesystem then
>it should not be called ProDOS or any variation on that. It is a brand new
>file system.

I didn't see the beginning of this thread, but I agree.

All I would want in a new filesystem would be:
(1) relatively simple and quick, like prodos (*)
(2) support bigger than 32 meg partitions

(*)  That is, I don't care if there are filename restrictions or not.. As long
as it's _at least_ as long as ProDOS, that's ok.  (Sure, longer is better and
including spaces in filenames is better, but anything to make it work now and
improve later..)

and no supporting bigger than 32 meg partitions by lame allocation block
sizing tricks like hfs.  UGGH.


As long as any GS software that runs off of HFS would run off of the
theoretical new FST, good enough for me.  (As in, obviously you're not going
to be able to make any _more_ software run off of it.)


BTW -- how are any of the portable filesystems?  like the CD ones, or the
DVD filesystem.
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